BFI London Film Festival Reveals Industry Forum Lineup — SkimNews
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- BFI London Film Festival revealed the full lineup for its Industry Forum, including previously announced Spotlight conversations with producers James Wilson and Pippa Harris.
- Danny Boyle, director of "Ink," will be interviewed live by Matt Belloni for "The Town" podcast as part of the Forum's Spotlight slate.
- Costume designer PC Williams will appear in conversation with her "My Father's Shadow" collaborator, director Akinola Davies Jr.
- The Forum opens Oct. 8 with a cinema programmers panel featuring Curzon's Ben Lyndon, Picturehouse's Carol McKay, and BFI Imax's Madeleine Mullett, reflecting on UK theaters after a record-breaking spring-summer season.
- An Oct. 12 international producers panel will bring together Ian Maher ("Everybody Digs Bill Evans"), Adrià Monés ("The End of It"), Dyveke Bjørkly Graver ("Fjord"), and Rodrigo Teixeira ("Paper Tiger," "I'm Still Here") to discuss cross-border co-productions and funding.
- A separate archival-storytelling panel will include Theo Rollason ("Queer Edward II"), Nanette Burstein ("Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff"), Rafael Guendelman ("Az Zeeb"), and BFI National Archive's Simon McCallum.
- Holly Daniel, Take Three's program director, will host a session showcasing new voices in screenwriting.
- Festival director Kristy Matheson framed the Forum as bringing together "both U.K. and international talent whose work is having a real impact on cinema around the world."
Why it matters: The Forum's structure signals where the BFI sees pressure points worth convening around: exhibition sustainability after a record UK spring-summer, the mechanics of cross-border co-production, and archive access as a creative resource. For independent producers like Teixeira and Monés sharing a stage Oct. 12, the session offers a rare side-by-side look at four distinct international funding and creative approaches in one room rather than across separate festivals.
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